Background

Dr. Richard J. Danzig serves as a Consultant to the Department of Defense of USA. Dr. Danzig serves as an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. He has on-going advisory relationships on business and political matters with several businesses, including a leading nanotechnology start-up and a large Japanese trading company. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy in the Clinton administration from November 1998 to January 2001 and was Undersecretary of ... the Navy from November 1993 to May 1997. He served as a Partner of the law firm of Latham & Watkins from 1981 to 1993. He has been the Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments since June 2001. Dr. Danzig serves as the Chairman of the Center for a New American Security. He serves as a Director of Public Agenda and a Member of the Board of Directors of Saffron Hill Ventures, Ltd. Dr. Danzig serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Nantero Inc. He serves as Director of the Center for New American Security and is a Member of the U.S. Military Southern counsel Advisory Board. He is a Trustee of Reed College. Dr. Danzig has been a Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustess of The RAND Corporation since April 18, 2013 and its Trustee since June 2009. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, and the U.S. Military European Command Advisory Board. He served as a Director of National Semiconductor Corp. from 2001 to September 23, 2011. He served on National's board from 1987 to 1993. He served as a Director at Human Genome Sciences Inc. since 2001. In recent time he has been a Director of National Semiconductor Corporation. He served as a Director of Partnership for Public Service. He is a Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the CNA Corporation (Center for Naval Analyses). He served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Traveling Fellow in Asia and Europe for the Center of International Political Economy and an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. He has three times received the Department of Defense's highest award for civilians, the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award. Dr. Danzig holds a B.A. from Reed College, J.D. degree from Yale Law School and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

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